[
US
/ˈhæmstɝ/
]
[ UK /hˈæmstɐ/ ]
[ UK /hˈæmstɐ/ ]
NOUN
- short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches
How To Use hamster In A Sentence
- The pet shop clerk had been helpful, showing him an assortment of mice and guinea pigs and even a pair of canaries, but in the end, Enoch had settled on the brown-and-white hamster.
- Hamsters reared in the laboratory can be made to have female-biased litters by keeping them hungry during adolescence or pregnancy.
- So from my earliest childhood there was a bond created between myself and my animals, which were little pets like hamsters and gerbils.
- If it was the runt of the litter I imagine the hamster would be bigger than that - say three or four inches.
- Truthfully, any hamster I have, or don't have, will remain pretty stinky if his lavations are left to me.
- It was noted that progesterone alone, in contrast with the rat which requires oestrogen for nidation, can maintain blastocysts through nidation in the ovariectomized hamster.
- In hamsters, a high dose of extracts from Solanum elaeagnifolium, Solanum dulcamara, Solanum sarrachoides and Solanum melongena induced congenital craneo-face malformations and gastric and intestinal changes.
- In case you ever have a problem identifying rodents again, hamsters are cute and stuff food into their cheeks.
- The dominant hamster often licks the belly of the submissive hamster.
- It's one thing to film a pack of wolves hunting down a wildebeest, but capturing the drama of a hamster on its wheel is more challenging. Times, Sunday Times